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"No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good."
— 1 Samuel 2:24, NET Bible
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.”
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah’s people to transgress. ”
“No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.”
“Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.”
“No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.”
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.”
And indeed the LORD attended to Hannah. She got pregnant and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew up before the LORD.
Eli was very old. And he would hear about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel and how they used to go to bed with the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
So he said to them,“Why do you do these things, these evil things which I hear about from all these people?
No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.
If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him then?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father. Indeed the LORD had decided to kill them.
However, the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the LORD and with people.
The Lord Judges the House of Eli Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him,“This is what the LORD has said:‘I plainly revealed myself to your ancestor’s house when they were slaves to the house of Pharaoh in Egypt.